I see your point, but I can't help but think back to last week when there was a big stink over the curriculum at Waterloo being influenced by a substantial Microsoft "donation." I'm not sure I would want that either.
When I did my undergrad, I had to take a few "fluff" classes, and that's exactly what they were - facile and predictable. I also had to take a lot of technical stuff that will never have any applicability in my career. I would have liked a compromise between the two a lot better!
Painting an entire generation with your brush is somewhat unfair, isn't it? According to the article, at least one of the 30 was accepted to MIT. I'm guessing they must be somewhat more mature than the average applicant (the ones that think being voted the #1 party school in the Big Ten is a GOOD thing) and will actually put a little thought into what they should take in pursuit of a degree. That being said, your courses sound pretty compelling should I determine that I could use a post-grad degree!
Alton -
I can't help but notice that your kitchen has quite a bit of high-end Viking appliances in it. I'm in the process of designing the kitchen for my new house, but doubt if my budget will allow for such high-end appliances. What features of the Viking appliances are the most important to you, and which are just "nice to haves?" For example, after the millionth cleaning of the undertrays on my range, I'm sold on the idea of sealed burners. I also find it difficult to get a low enough heat on my burners to simmer a delicate sauce, so I'm sold on the idea of at least one low-BTU burner. What else should I be looking for in my Viking-like but not quite Viking appliances? And are there benefits to going with a cook top and wall oven as opposed to a range? One more: I'm considering going with a gas cooktop and an electric convection wall oven - thoughts? Ok, one more: any thoughts on Advantium "cook with light" ovens?
I ordered an autographed copy of the book from foodtv.com, and was somewhat disappointed to find that the autograph was on a sticker pasted to the inside cover of the book. Kind of cheap-ish IMHO. On the plus side, I laugh out loud reading this book, and one has to admit that is pretty rare for a cookbook! Plus, it's hard to fault a guy whose recipes break all of the necessary items into the broad categories of Hardware and Software.
the rest of the world won't follow, so there will always be a steady supply of 'open' hardware (which will probably be cheaper, too). After which the American industry will scream bloody murder because of the unfair competitive advantage of foreign corporations using all this open stuff.
This will not result in the removal of the crippled products, it will result in tariffs on the imports. The open hardware may be available, but it will be available only via the black market.
This, IMHO, is why it won't succeed for the same reason cartels designed to artificially restrict supply sooner or later all fall appart.
Cartels like the diamond industry? That was has been going strong for ages! Cartels like OPEC? It may not have the strength it used to, but it still has a tremendous amount of control over oil pricing. I hope you're right on this one, but it's not a given.
You are of course right about Mr. al-Mujahir not even being imprisoned for 48 hours yet, but it still presents a dangerous precedent.
According to CNN, he was captured on May 8. It is now June 11. Am I missing what you're saying, because it looks like he has been imprisoned for a hell of a lot more than 48 hours!
Adobe did not lock up anybody. They pressed charges using laws written and passed by the government. The government enforced those laws. Nobody has forgotten, they just understand that Adobe may have requested the enforcement, but they did NOT lock anybody up.
I understand your point regarding the private ownership of firearms, but I don't agree that you would have any recourse at all against our government no matter how many guns you own. They have tanks, planes, smart bombs/missles, chemical and biological weapons, and nukes. Your 30-06 isn't going to intimidate them at all, IMHO.
But what you said is true, you will probably never get touched as long as you STAY WITHIN the approved thought/consumption patterns and do nothing to attract attention.
Until such time as technology lowers data search and analysis costs to nil. At that point, everyone will be watched. Won't it be fun when every inane law is 100% enforceable??
- Customs is able to stop the delivery of tools that MIGHT be used to hack Nintendo games
- Customs is UNABLE to stop the shipment of night vision equipment to terrorist harboring nations where it WILL be used to commit violent crimes
Why are you blaming Bush for this? This is nothing new! This type of thing happened under Clinton, Reagan, Carter, the other Bush, etc. I remember H&R Block doing this almost 15 years ago.
Ironically, boycotting plays into their hands. They will take the statistics showing a decrease in purchases of music or attendance at cinemas and say "See? Told ya so. Pirating is killing us."
Villanueva was once invited to an event in Columbia where he was to meet with the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman, and to his great disappointment this event had to be cancelled.
Well, we make a few copies of the crossword puzzle so everyone can have one, but as you point out its not about the cost - in this case it's more about convenience.
edprice@microsoft.com
This is the address supplied on the site to ask about licensing requirements. I suggest he be contacted to clear up any doubt as to the intended meaning of the statement that an OEM licensed OS must remain on the machine for the life of said machine. This would effectively make it illegal to ever remove Windows from a machine and install Linux. This is obviously (to me, anyway) NOT the case. Wonder what Mr. Price has to say about it.
How exactly does.prn make it harder for kids to find it?? Seems to me it is the opposite: instead of having to look through a million or so.coms, kids are almost guaranteed to find what they want under.prn.
Would make it easier to filter it, though, assuming it's enforceable (which is doubtful).
Slashdot Mirror
I see your point, but I can't help but think back to last week when there was a big stink over the curriculum at Waterloo being influenced by a substantial Microsoft "donation." I'm not sure I would want that either.
When I did my undergrad, I had to take a few "fluff" classes, and that's exactly what they were - facile and predictable. I also had to take a lot of technical stuff that will never have any applicability in my career. I would have liked a compromise between the two a lot better!
Painting an entire generation with your brush is somewhat unfair, isn't it? According to the article, at least one of the 30 was accepted to MIT. I'm guessing they must be somewhat more mature than the average applicant (the ones that think being voted the #1 party school in the Big Ten is a GOOD thing) and will actually put a little thought into what they should take in pursuit of a degree. That being said, your courses sound pretty compelling should I determine that I could use a post-grad degree!
Good points. I've always wondered about the Jenn-Air side draft cooktops - hard to believe a side draft can adequately handle a 6 burner cooktop.
Alton - I can't help but notice that your kitchen has quite a bit of high-end Viking appliances in it. I'm in the process of designing the kitchen for my new house, but doubt if my budget will allow for such high-end appliances. What features of the Viking appliances are the most important to you, and which are just "nice to haves?" For example, after the millionth cleaning of the undertrays on my range, I'm sold on the idea of sealed burners. I also find it difficult to get a low enough heat on my burners to simmer a delicate sauce, so I'm sold on the idea of at least one low-BTU burner. What else should I be looking for in my Viking-like but not quite Viking appliances? And are there benefits to going with a cook top and wall oven as opposed to a range? One more: I'm considering going with a gas cooktop and an electric convection wall oven - thoughts? Ok, one more: any thoughts on Advantium "cook with light" ovens?
Not to short circuit your question, but those are available on his web site. I think he calls them Essentials. He's at www.altonbrown.com.
I ordered an autographed copy of the book from foodtv.com, and was somewhat disappointed to find that the autograph was on a sticker pasted to the inside cover of the book. Kind of cheap-ish IMHO. On the plus side, I laugh out loud reading this book, and one has to admit that is pretty rare for a cookbook! Plus, it's hard to fault a guy whose recipes break all of the necessary items into the broad categories of Hardware and Software.
the rest of the world won't follow, so there will always be a steady supply of 'open' hardware (which will probably be cheaper, too). After which the American industry will scream bloody murder because of the unfair competitive advantage of foreign corporations using all this open stuff.
This will not result in the removal of the crippled products, it will result in tariffs on the imports. The open hardware may be available, but it will be available only via the black market.
This, IMHO, is why it won't succeed for the same reason cartels designed to artificially restrict supply sooner or later all fall appart.
Cartels like the diamond industry? That was has been going strong for ages! Cartels like OPEC? It may not have the strength it used to, but it still has a tremendous amount of control over oil pricing. I hope you're right on this one, but it's not a given.
You are of course right about Mr. al-Mujahir not even being imprisoned for 48 hours yet, but it still presents a dangerous precedent.
According to CNN, he was captured on May 8. It is now June 11. Am I missing what you're saying, because it looks like he has been imprisoned for a hell of a lot more than 48 hours!
Adobe did not lock up anybody. They pressed charges using laws written and passed by the government. The government enforced those laws. Nobody has forgotten, they just understand that Adobe may have requested the enforcement, but they did NOT lock anybody up.
I understand your point regarding the private ownership of firearms, but I don't agree that you would have any recourse at all against our government no matter how many guns you own. They have tanks, planes, smart bombs/missles, chemical and biological weapons, and nukes. Your 30-06 isn't going to intimidate them at all, IMHO.
But what you said is true, you will probably never get touched as long as you STAY WITHIN the approved thought/consumption patterns and do nothing to attract attention.
Until such time as technology lowers data search and analysis costs to nil. At that point, everyone will be watched. Won't it be fun when every inane law is 100% enforceable??
Let me get this straight:
- Customs is able to stop the delivery of tools that MIGHT be used to hack Nintendo games
- Customs is UNABLE to stop the shipment of night vision equipment to terrorist harboring nations where it WILL be used to commit violent crimes
Yeah, we've got our priorities straight.
Why are you blaming Bush for this? This is nothing new! This type of thing happened under Clinton, Reagan, Carter, the other Bush, etc. I remember H&R Block doing this almost 15 years ago.
How does memory management work without garbage collection? Is there an explicit delete, or is it a matter of once allocated, always allocated?
Ironically, boycotting plays into their hands. They will take the statistics showing a decrease in purchases of music or attendance at cinemas and say "See? Told ya so. Pirating is killing us."
Villanueva was once invited to an event in Columbia where he was to meet with the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman, and to his great disappointment this event had to be cancelled.
They refused to re-name the country GNU/Columbia.
They did a great job of disarming the most worried school folks and then hosted an open bar for the rest of the afternoon.
I think that says it all.
O Bin Laden is stupid. Instead of the WTC, he should have crashed the planes into Disneyworld, Hollywood and Redmond.
Uh, I don't think the point was to HELP us...
Well, we make a few copies of the crossword puzzle so everyone can have one, but as you point out its not about the cost - in this case it's more about convenience.
edprice@microsoft.com This is the address supplied on the site to ask about licensing requirements. I suggest he be contacted to clear up any doubt as to the intended meaning of the statement that an OEM licensed OS must remain on the machine for the life of said machine. This would effectively make it illegal to ever remove Windows from a machine and install Linux. This is obviously (to me, anyway) NOT the case. Wonder what Mr. Price has to say about it.
How exactly does .prn make it harder for kids to find it?? Seems to me it is the opposite: instead of having to look through a million or so .coms, kids are almost guaranteed to find what they want under .prn.
Would make it easier to filter it, though, assuming it's enforceable (which is doubtful).
I've always wanted to put 'Cli' stickers in front of Taurus on those ugly, ugly Fords.
No, the US gov't only protects its CORPORATE citizens. The rest of us are viewed as a necessary evil or tax slaves.
pot calls kettle black.